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Zero Trust Security

A security model that can protect your business and enable growth.

Digital transformation has significant implications for an enterprise’s attack surface and network and security architectures.

Why a Zero Trust Security Model is Needed

New business initiatives and processes have created new attack surfaces, and a corporate security perimeter no longer makes sense. Applications, users, and devices are moving outside, dissolving what was once the trusted enterprise perimeter. Protection is now needed where applications and data, and users and devices, are.

Users, devices, applications, and data are moving outside of the enterprise perimeter and zone of control.

New business processes driven by digital transformation increase risk exposure.

“Trust but verify” is no longer an option, as targeted, advanced threats are moving inside the corporate perimeter.

Traditional perimeters are complex, increase risk, and are no longer compatible with today’s business models.

Common IT Challenges

Network Trust and Malware

The old mantra of “inside = trusted” is an antiquated concept as network breaches continue to soar. Companies must evolve to a “never trust, always verify” zero trust model to secure against the wide variety of threats that exist and are constantly evolving.

Complexity and IT Resources

Enterprise access and security is complex … and changing. Providing secure application access often takes days and requires touching multiple hardware and software components from multiple vendors. And more enterprise apps are SaaS and IaaS, which adds another layer of requirements. Ensuring network security requires specialized knowledge and IT time for reviewing alerts. Multiply this across multiple environments — and often, multiple regions — and the problems magnify quickly. But it doesn’t need to be this complex.

Poor User Experience

User experience is often a trade-off that comes with having multiple layers of security, or an application delivery platform that doesn’t meet the requirements of a global, distributed user base. This results in unproductive workers, application adoption loss, and extra work for IT with increased help desk tickets. Strong security doesn’t need to come with compromise.

How to Start Your Zero Trust Security Journey

Move to a least-privilege application access model

If you opt for a simple VPN setup, you probably do what many companies do — you allow logged-in users to have IP-level access to your entire network. We know how dangerous this is. Why should call center employees have IP access to source code repositories? Or why should a contractor using your billing system have access to the credit card processing terminals? Access should be to just those applications needed in order to perform a role.

Get an access solution that

Keeps users off the corporate network Provides single sign-on for all corporate applications (on-premises, SaaS, IaaS) Utilizes the power of the Internet for delivery, while keeping the applications hidden Enables you to add multi-factor authentication Includes application acceleration and application security built in Simplifies IT process, with no hardware or client-side software and simple onboarding Integrates with your existing SIEM solutions or delivers full reporting

Protect against targeted threats when users are on or off network

What protects your users from becoming unwitting bad actors through malware infections? Prevention and detection of targeted threats such as malware, phishing, ransomware, and command and control are crucial for outbound traffic.

Get a threat protection solution that

Protects users on and off networkProvides visibility of all Internet-bound trafficIdentifies and blocks access to malicious domainsProhibits DNS-based data exfiltrationDisrupts communications from compromised devicesEnables enforcement of your acceptable use policy

Improve your end-user experience

A zero trust security architecture should not come at the expense of simplicity, user productivity, or experience.

Enable a zero trust architecture model with Akamai

As the classic approach to enterprise security is no longer viable, businesses must shift to meet their users, applications, and data where they live — today, that means the cloud, as it offers increased and improved flexibility, collaboration, connectivity, and performance. Akamai has been a cloud-native company since our inception in 1998. Akamai is built on three fundamental pillars that differentiate us from other zero trust solution providers: our unmatched platform, our trusted brand, and our expertise.

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Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps, and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics, and 24/7/365 monitoring. To learn why the world’s top brands trust Akamai, visit www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter. You can find our global contact information at www.akamai.com/locations. Published 09/18.